Release Census Early Campaign - Please read & reply !

[v i c k y]

I'd love it if the 1911 census was released early, and was happy to vote on the issue here, but I remember all too well what a shambles it was getting at the 1901 census! So much for technology making life easier then, eh? I'm all for protecting our privacy (I'm in favour of ID cards if they won't cost us anything - I've got nothing to hide, and would be happy to carry an ID card in a purse that's already full of other ID if they want me to - but I don't for one second think they will prevent terrorism or make the country a safer place) but, as was mentioned earlier, the government should practice what it preaches about privacy! There are far better ways to spend millions of pounds. Speaking of which, I'd rather pay however much the ID card is going to be to access the 1911 census a few years earlier than usual.

[gillianR]

Hi
I have only just joined your site, but fully agree with you that the 1911 should be released much much earlier. Do get up a petition and get on to your M.P.
I have already spoken to my M.P. and he too would like to see the 1911 up and running, but alas, that was as far as it went. This is all too much 'red tape'.
At this rate we are going to be pushing our zimmer frames as we do our searching 
I do hope more people will reply to you.

GillianR

[donna-paul]

i have to agree with the other peeps posted here and say YES to the 1911 census being released early!!

i have researched myself on the internet and found things I didnt even know about myself!!!!!!
  so if it really is privacy that is the issue i want mine back!!!
 but i dont think that is what its all about
its all about rules --------- silly rules at that
and besides it might answer the question as to how my nan came to have 3 children by another man whilst living with her husband i mean was he a neighbour or what and was my nans' husband really seeing the man who lived accross the street at the time !!?
    (family folklore needs checking and i can only do that via 1911 census)
donna
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[sam wadge]

I cannot wait until the 1911 census is released as a whole new branch line of my family will be unleashed for me to explore. I'm searching for an OWEN which is an extremely common name so i don't know which one he is on the 1901 census. In 1911 he has a family. So i want the 1911 census to be released early. Plus a family secret that has been dead for nearly 100 years will be resolved by one word on the census page. I CAN'T WAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!

All the best with the campaign
Sam

[gillianR]

If only we could get the 1911, then perhaps I would find out what my grandfather was doing, but his name was
Smith- so I am going to have a problem anyway.

It is important to all of us that the 1911 is released
early.

GillianR

[jackie o gorman]

We can get biths deaths marriages to present day so why not make the census 50 yr secrecy act make the job easier for us all,good luck with the lobbying behind you all the way

[gillianR]

I am behind you all the way with getting hold of the 1911 Census.
Do you have anyone in particular whom we could all write  to, apart from our own local M.P.'s

If we could have ONE NAME AND ADDRESS, then maybe a full on bombardment of letters, or e.mails, might get someone thinking??

GillianR

[Janet B]

Received this via email - interesting!

From: Denis McCready
> > To: UK Centre for Census Access Studies
> > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:14 PM
> > Subject: The English & Welsh 1911 Census closure rule has been abolished
> >
> > Just in case you haven't heard
> >
> > The English and Welsh 100-year census closure rule was abolished by
> > Parliament in 2000, when it passed the Freedom of Information Act.
> >
> >>From 1st January 2005, family historians from anywhere in the world can
> > apply for Freedom of Information Act copies of the 1911 or 1921 census for
> > England & Wales.
> >
> > The facts have been kept a closely guarded government secret for 5 years.
> >
> > To find out whether you or your MP have been conned by ministers since
> > 2000, just look for a mention of Lord Chancellor's Instrument No.12 (1966)
> > in any official letter on the 1911 Census that you have received. If the
> > letter doesn't mention the abolition of the 100-year census closure
> > period, you're probably the victim of government deception.
> >
> > For FREE advice on getting your own Freedom of Information Act copy of the
> > 1911 Census, visit our Home Page.
> >
> > Denis McCready
> > Director
> > The UK Centre for Census Access Studies
> > Solihull, England
> > Home Page: http://home.clara.net/denis.mccready/index.htm
> > Email: denis.mccready@clara.co.uk
> > Fax: +44 (0)870 912 1254
> >
> >Cheers
Janet

[woodworth]

With the amount of technology and the desire for a multitude of agencies to gather and exchange personal information about the lives of living citizens of this country we have no privacy whatsoever. There can't really be an issue about releasing some information taken 95 years ago.

George